Why I draw Cute Dragons

Few mythological creatures capture our imagination as dragons can, like celebrities of the worlds of fantasy and imagination dragons call to us. In some ways dragons symbolize the duel nature of human desire, for just as we wish for peace and love, so to do we seem to often wish for a challenge, a fight as it where. Certainly in many stories cute dragons abound, “Pete Dragon” for instance features a friendly dragon. Yet even in a story such as this there is a strange sort of villain and the goal in the end is to protect our dreams with a larger then life friend. One could make the argument that dragons are useful in the human mind because they present a great challenge, one worth recalling and praising for centuries, and should they be real they would be a substantial challenge, very different from those we struggle with everyday.

In so many challenges we face everyday there is no way for us to know for certain if we are doing the right thing, even trying to do the right thing, going about it the right way. So if we actually succeed at our current goal we may simply end up making life worse for ourselves and others. Dragons however would present a challenge that could be defined by us, one which no matter our choices will offer us a clear direction, a goal that success is truly success.

Still however no such human dream is so simple and straight forward, and dragons do have a duo side, not just in cute dragons for children but in powerful dragons that can love and be our friends. People dream of being friends with dragons, and story tellers write of conflict, for killing a dragon will solve a problem, yet end the existence of the time of fantasy of dreams. And so it often seems with our own daily problems, for to solve them can end a time in our lives which we love. It would seem that humans complicate our dreams as we complicate our lives.

Perhaps then our lives are complex because of the multi nature of our dreams our hopes and fears. We are after all very complex beings, and while we may try to call those with duo natures, inconsistent, hypocritical it is important to remember that our brain has more cells then the stars of the universe, and so it is quite capable of being more complex, of being hot and cold at the same time, furies and calm. So it should be only natural that our dreams of dragons can represent multiple aspects of ourselves, but in the end they are the ever large spokes men of a dream, a dream to enter a magical world where we can be more then we currently are.